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Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-11
SOUTH BUTTE +

Willard Bennett, of Deer Lodge, is il
town.
Mrs. "a. Peavy ia home from q month.
visit in Chicago.
The Montana Produce Company have
put q new tin roof on their building.
Mrs. Hugh Diamond goes to Missoula
tomorrow, on q visit to her parents.
Orville Adams, An engineer on the Mon.
tana Union, leaves to-day ON q visit to
Zion.
Mrs. John Burnes will leave in q few days
for a visit to relatives in Monmouth,
Oregon.
Mrs. John Martin, with her children. de.
parted on Tuesday nights train to join her
husband in Idaho
The base ballists were out for practice
Wednesday evening, and sent q ball
through the window OF Dave Charles
store.
A. Marceau left yesterday afternoon with
a camping outfit for his placer diegings on
Moose creek. He will spend the summer
there working his claim.
In a few days Mr.. Augustus Rudder is
expected to make one OF his periodical
| visits to the Fourth Ward in the interests
OF the railroad company.
Thos. Fogarty has been transferred from
night to day weighmaster for the Montana
Union in place of James Jeffries, who has
been appointed to succeed AL Dill as general
storekeeper.
VIM. Black, formerly hostler for the Mon
tana Union at Garrison, has resigned to
take a position on the Oregon & California
railway, at Ashland, Ore. He departed
Wednesday evening.
Yesterday Geo. F. Marsh paid to Bennett
Bros. the amount OF losses sustained by
them in the recent fire. He also paid to
Chas. Ramsey 5000, the amount of insur-
ance due Oh the Pioneer Hotel.
David Good met with an accident at the
Parrot Smelter Wednesday. A pig OF cop
per fell upon his left foot, bruising it badly.
He is about on crutches. and will probably
be unable to work for some weeks.
Freeman Howe is filed with righteous
indignation. Some busy body has blighted
HE hopes by informing some of his young
lady friends in South Butte hat he was a
benedict. He declares it a foul Islander and
offers a reward for the miscreant.
Some of our railroad men are exhibiting
much interest in raising fancy breeds Of
chickens. Several ..consignments, in that
line OF blooded stock, have arrived. The
latest is Ben Johnson's hen and ten chicks.
The hen can boast of no fancy pedigree.
but her owner anticipates a brilliant future
for her family. No doubt fighting chickens
will be numerous if they do not prove q
bogus breed like Hugh Diamonds Irish
Grey" (?) rooster.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-11
PURE WATER.
The Silver Bow Water Company Put.
ting in a $4,000 Plant Down in the
Flat to Supply Butte and South Butte.

w 0URRAy AuVV ~ CVuGA OuGUCs
That Butte is going to have an abun.
dant supply ofpure water pretty soon may
be safely deduced from facts which VI
append. It was learned yesterday that the
Silver Bow Water Company has ordered a
Compound Duplex Knowles pumping en-.
CINE with.a capacity of 500 g%allonsa minute
and power to raise water 500 feet to be
located ON the other side of Silver Bow
creek on the fat. The company has
bought ground there upon which there has
been ascertained to be a never-failing supply
Of the purest spring water. 1t is the COM
pauy's intention to erect a pump house in
which the Knowles pump will be placed,
from whence the water will be sent up to
the old reservoir above town and further
reservoir facilities will be erected to be
used exclusively for fire purposes. The
intention, however, chiefly, is to supply
South Butte with the long felt want Of q
good and plentiful water supply, for which
purpose pipes direct from the pumping
house will be laid plentifully through that
village. The right of way for the pipes to
the reservoir haa been secured from the
parties owning ground through which they
Will pass.
The work Of putting down these pipes
will be begun as soon as the pipes can be
got on the ground. The company does not
expect to send water up to the reservoir all
the time, only when the supply derived
from Bull Run Gulch uni short, but they
are going to furnish this town with an un-
failing supply of good pure spring water.
This was emphatically repeated by The
MINERS informant, who added hat the
cost of the plant contemplated an expep.
diture of about $50, 900. The surveyors
are put in the field and will be out to-day,
and the pipe will be ~telegraphed for as soon
as the amount required is as~certained. In.
has been asked for by wire how
loon 5000 feet of eight-inch water pipe
would be ready for shipment. and an an
swer is expected to-day. The pump is al.
ready on the way, and will be here inside Of
two weeks.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-11
The Miner Publishing Company.
MATT. W. ANDERSON Manager.
J. o. DICKERSON, Editor

The Western Union threatens to treat
its stockholders to a surprise in the shape
OF . dividend OF one per cent. The quart
erly surplus will aggregate more than a
million dollars. The competition of other
powerful companies do not seeE to reduce
the revenues Of the Western Union, which
strengthens the argument, that competition
in telegraphy results in lower prices which.
however, is compensated for BY the in.
creased volume of the business. It is a safe
assumption that twice to three times the
telegraph business would be lone in this
Territory in a short time if the rates were
reduced. At points East Of Chicago where
competition is the sharpest, a twenty word
message may be sent for fifteen cents.
Where such rates as these obtain the
wires relieve the mails of a great share of
their burden and greatly facilitates the dis
patch of business, and yet the earnings Of
the Western Union show that the business
pays at these rates. OF course, such rates
cannot be expected in the West, even with
competition, as it costs much more for
plant and equipment, and for the mainte-
nance OF the service, although operators
receive about the same pay here hat they
do East, and the cost of living is much
higher.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-11
A New Street RAILWAY.

From an authentic source, information
was yesterday impaired to a representa-.
tive of this paper that a street railroad
from the depot in South Butte to Broad
way and Main will be down and in running
operation before the Bennett project hat
been begun. It was stated that it's route
h1tkerward would be by the gas house ur
Main street. While not so informed, it il
presumed that the Norcross franchise.
which was granted two years ago, will be
av4iled of. The more railroads, street OF
other, the better for Butte, but if the gen.
tlemen who have this last scheme in con-
temptation mean what they say they will
have to 60 to work at once. as the prelim.
mary arrangements of the BENEFITS are so
near completion that tracklaying will not
be much longer deferred.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-11
KEEP THEM PENNED,
Or the Marshal Will Get After YOur
P0rkers, If You Have Any,

Judge Lippincott had a Ease before hin
yesterday which exhibited in a strong ligh1
the average citizens ignorance Of the law
and in order to remove further misappre
hension in the community on a like sub
iect, the legal bearings On the question ar,
given. A citizen living in the Upper end O
town had a pig which he allowed to wander
into a neighbours yard, where the porke1
followed his natural instincts and uprooted
things generally. To the great surprise O.
this worthy he was hauled before Judge
Lippincott and the law and gospel admin.
istered to him in due form. The Judge
read him the amendment of Section 1893
of the Revised Statutes, which is as fol
lows:
1.-THE owner or owners OF swine are here
by prohibited from letting the same run at
large at any season of the yearin any town
or village in this Territory having a popu.
lation Of over ten inhabitants, and any
person violating the provisions of this sec
ton shall be deemed guilty OF a INSIDE
meanor, and upon conviction shall be fined
the sum of $1Ofor the first offence and $50
for each subsequent offence and shall be
liable in damage to any person injured
thereby" The case before the court was
allowed to 60 over until Saturday in the
expectation that the complaining witness
and defendant would settle the case to-
gether. Those who rejoice in the possession
OF this class OF stock are advised to take
warning and pen their hogs up.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-11
The New York authorities are making

The New York authorities are making q
successful issue Of the enforcement of the
liquor law. No distinctions are made.
The proprietors Of the Gilsey and the Fifth
Avenue were ameng the offenders who we're
brought up standing in court with the plea
that they only served their guests at the
table. This defense however did not hold.
Then they instituted habeas corpus pro-
ceedinss to test the constitutionality OF
the law in the courts above. Some very
sound lawyers entertain the theory that
the law will not stand the test in the higher
courts but in the meantime the municipal
authorities are making it odious by the
enforcement Of every feature OF it. Mean
while the tipplers are becoming educated
up to the necessity OF laying in Sunday
stock on Saturday night. 1t is claimed by
the friends Of sumptuary legislation that
there il less drunkenness on the streets
since this law was enforced thar ever be.
fore. A vigorous legal controversy will be
waged to maintain the law in full force and
effect,
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-11
WHAT THE WIRES WHISPER,

Aaron L. Still, a compeer OF Fred Doug.
las in abolition days, died at Reading,
Penn, yesterday.
The Treasury Department has decided
that foreign pig iron used as ballast in YES.
sells engaged in the foreign trade 10 liable to
duty if landed III the United States for the
purpose CT being sold.
At the yesterdays meeting OF the Typo
biographical Union, at Buffalo. the COM
mittee on cheap female labor, recon-
mended organization and equal pay for
eqnal work.
At Scranton, Pennsylvania on yesterday
a conflict occurred between the strikers and
miaers employed at Grassy Islaud mine
and three strikers were shot.
Both sides and the court yesterday
agreed on one thing, and that was the jury
was not wanted. The court directed q new
panel OF four or five thausand names.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-11
GRIPPING DEVELOPMENTS.
The Lien Law Proving a Curse Instead
Of a Benefit to Those in Whose Interest
1t Was Passed.

Under the new lien Law all mine owners
are demanding heavy bonds OF ~lessees,
which is proving a very burdensome injus.
tice to prospectors. As a rule the latter
are mostly poor men, and to give the bond
required by the owners. which the absurd
provisions OF the lien law compel the latter
to exact in order to ave themselves from
possible contingencies, is often beyond their
power. The result of this will be that a
great deal less development OF new proper
ties will be done this year than otherwise
would be the case. The law places all ex-
penses created in developing the mine a
first lien upon it. and a dishonest lessee can
burden a property with Indebtedness to the
full value OF it, which the owners must pay
if the lessee fails to do SO. The same
rule applies to other work upon
real estate Of any description. A
lessee OF a house may load it down
With expenses for unnecessary repairs
and they are q valid lien which the owner
has to pay whether he approved them or
not. In order to protect themselves, as
stated, owners have to require heavy
indemnity bonds, and these of course fall
most heavily upon the poor and honest
laborers, who are especially vehement in
their de~nunciations of this Ubiquitous law.
The MINER published the special features
OF this act about a couple of months ago
in the interest OF the community, and
pointed out the result that would come
about when it's absurd provisions were
known, which has happened and is happen
ing as predicted. This is one of the pieces
Of legislation by the last Legislature that
called for immediate repeal or amendment
and must not be lost sight OF at the extra
session.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-11

The wide awake citizens OF Spokane Fallt
have just perfected the organization of a
Board OF Trade. And the Review, always
keenIy alive to the best interests OF it's con.
stituency, is already urging the Board to
take action to prevent Portland from get.
ting away with the business in the Ceu1
d'Alene country. Butte and Helena should
be up and doing. as their interests are
largely in the mines and general business
there, and will increase in volume ii it lie
cultivated wisely. The Portland people
did not discover the value OF the business
until Montana capital had developed the
resources Of the country in a large degree.
This sudden awakening on the part OF
Portland, backed by the most enterprising
mon in the city, means business and prompt
measures should be taken to neutralize it.
We would again call the attention OF the
Board to it, and remind our business men
that it is a matter worthy OF early consid.
Grafton.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-11
Eject Of Too Much PreyiOusness,

The deputies in the Sheriff's Office serving
Grand and trial jury subpenas have ex-
psrienced a good deal of trouble in finding
their men owing to the publication of the
names in another paper the day they were
drawn. As one of them said, the jurymen
ran like deer before they were served.
Some of them are said to intend leaving
town for a little. But that will avail them
nothing. Whether it is an interference
with business or not they may as well SUBJ
NIT to ser vice as they cannot evade it sue
cessfully except by remaining away from
town over the July term. About half of
the Grand Jurors are served. The Sheriff
expressed his regret that he could not find
authority to constitute such publication
contempt Of court when the request to
withhold had been made by the Commits
sioners. He intends TO apply to the next
term Of court for an order to prevent a
recurrence of the publication before the
jurors are served.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-11
PERSONAL

Mr.. James Shields is over from the CAPT.
tai.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ballan, OF Pueblo, COL, are
in town.
Colonel Bratnober, of the Drum Lummon
mine, was in town yesterday.
Aparty of ladies spent yesterday picnick-
ing in Horse Canyon.
Miss Attic Birdseye returned last
Wednesday from a visit to Helena and
Blackfoot.
Mr.. Huffman, Of the Wholesale liquor
house OF Houser & Co. came over from
P~hilipsbure last evening.
DR.. L. E. Holmes will leave Butte to-day
via Denver for Maine, where be will meet
his wife and daughter, who have been
spending a year in Europe. They will all
return to Butte about the tenth of Au-
gust.
". J. Penrose has gone to the Warm
Springs for a season OF recreation, having
been out OF condition for two or three
weeks. Mr.. Julian will look after the in
terest of the paper in Mr.. Penrose's alb
sence, which will be about q week.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-11
LOCAL M~ISCELLANY.

Mr.. McCaig says the s~witchback at Null
Ian will be ready for paesase by Sunday.
The Pacific Express company Yesterday
shipped Is bars Of Aeulton valued at $751;
7O4.
The high trestle on the line of the Mon
tana Union south of the Anaconda mine is
completed.
The three Toy brothers were fined $40
and costs apiece by Judge Dingevon yester-
day for the humping they gave Joe Couch
on Wednesday evening.
Cnas. Hoskins has garnisheed the wages OF
Joseph Couch at the Anaconda in Justice
D~ingevon's court for SAG fines he paid for
him in the Toy assault cases and 1885
for goods furnished.
The Turn Verein is at home in it's new
quarters in the Pavilion. Dick Thierman
is the custodian OF the place. and anyone
wanting to rent the premises must 60 to
him. He is there all day.
Judge Lippincott dismissed the case
against E. T. Huson yesterday for petit lar
ceny OF . hind end of q wagon from Jos. T.
Perrin, and taxed the costs against the
complaining witness a. there was not prob
able cause for swearing out a complaint.
There was $500 insurance in Patton's
agency on the house burned yesterday
morning and 81. 900 on the furniture with
the Marsh agency. The fire caught in the
bedroom in the middle of the house, but
Schlessinser, the tenant, had been at Silver
Bow all day and heard of it next morning.
John Mccormick was appointed Deputy
Collector Of International Revenue to take
effect July 1. MI. Venable who resigns,
has given the Department and Collector
Shields entire satisfaction during his term
OF office and has left the service to accept a
position in private life OF higher
emolument than is paid faithful public
servants.
Justice ,Dingevon yesterday taxed the
complaining witness, Willie Verley, with the
costs OF the case against young Shadwell,
Kelly and Holmes, boys he accused OF
stealing his gumboots. The defendants
came and told the Justice that Willie's
pretended illness was a song and dance,
aud that his mother had tried to compro-
mise. The Justice said there had been too
much of that sort of thing. and Willie
would pay the costs or go and board it out
with the county.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-11
Struck By Lightning.

bOu q quarter to IL o'clock last even.
ing, during the heavy thunder storm then
prevailing, three men were struck by light
ming at the smelter at Gark's Colusa,
named Frank Lasby. John McRay and
Charley Stewart. They had been engaged
at wheeling in the yard and had stepped
into the doorway during the storm when a
bolt struck all three. That they were not
instantly killed was a wonder. Doctors
Whitford and Bacon were sent for about
midnight, and took with them a battery
and other instruments. They were met
on their return about 4 a. m. and stated
that all three were sensible when they ar
rived there, but paralyzed. Their flesh
was insensible to touch. Lasba was in a,
most critical condition and his recovery is
doubtful. Stewart is a little better and
out OF danger, but McRea was least injured
OF all. The doctors worked with them for
over two hours and had to apply the full
force OF the battery.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-11
st. David'S Necktie PARTY.

The necktie party of the ladies of St
David's Society at Renshaw Hall was quite
a success. The company in attendance
was small but select, and was almost en-.
tirely composed of descendants of the
ancient Britons. ALVEY dance programme
was gone through, introduced by a glee:
The Sailors Chorus" Miss Newton rem,
dered a cornet solo, playing two pieces and
evoking a storm Of applause from her listen.
ers. The Glee Club sang Awake, Eolian
were served in the hall, and the presence OF
several children gave a happy family air to
the assemblage, which was one of TIE pleas
ATTEST. most social, informal gatherings
that the society has yet held. 1t has a
Of between fifty-tive and sixty,
and numbers some of the pl~easantest peo-
pie in town among them.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-11
Got What He Was Aching For.

Aman named Joe Couch vas lying at thu
Centennial Hotel yesterday in an almost
unacceptable mass Of wounds and bruises
the result of a series of rows with som
members of the Toy family. It started in
COUGHS interference between Sam Toy and
his wife On Wednesday,, when he assaulted
Toy in his hose, for which he was arrested
and fined by Jnstice Dingevon. In the
afternoon he had a fight with the sister Of
Toys wife. for which he was also fined, and
in the evening he was met by the three Toy
brothers, who most effectually laid MIN
out, and it is believed cured him of his
yearning for fight for the present. The Toy
brothers were fined yesterday in Justice
Dingevon's court, but the feeling is all in
their favor.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-11

The factory inspection convention, a,
Philadelphia, resulted in a series of resolu
tions which ought to be generally enforced
They provide that children who should BIZ
at school shall not be employed in labor
to which they are not adapted; that Ladies'
should not be employed in any of the
trades for which they are unified by
their sex, and still more important, that
there should be a better system OF santa
ton in factories generally. In some OF the
great factories in the east but little atten-
ton has ever been paid to these matters.
And in very many OF them there is abso-
lutely no protection for the lives OF en-
ployes against fire. With all the menace
to life from the elements greater precautions
should be taken for it's protection in the
populous manufacturing centers OF the
eastI
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-11

The Indian Territory redskins are la.
menting with wild acclaim the allotment Of
their lands in severalty to them. They are
clamoring for political identity. Possibly
they think they can make a better living
40 practical politicians than in cultivatinq
the soil. Their plea is that their patriot.
ism should be cultivated. Certainly their
conceptions OF patriotism are susceptible
Of cultivation before they are granted the
privileges Of citizenship. There is enough
chaotic material in the field Of politics in
this country without introducing the In
dian to further complicate present condi.
tions. We had better draw the line on the
red man.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-11

Gus. Wa nearing the crossing: The men
Jaw tho train about 3 hundred feee away.
Patterson called to the driver to stop
RYAN insisted that they could make II.
Patterson either jumped or wa thrown OUT
and the engine struck the wagon.
Ryan thirty feet into the river and GRIP
ping one horse so that shooting was neces,
sary. The train w~asinstantly STOPPED ana
. search made for the body, but "ltnou.
result. The river being very high prevented
the rescue of the body. Up to the present
time the remains of the unfortunate man
have not been seen. It is hoped that they
will be recovered in the wing dam at Wells
vile hot springs. Ryan leaves a fine lam
.ly and sympathy is general.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-11

The naval court has rendered it's finding
in the case Of the collision between the
Celtic and the Britannia, censuring both of
the captains for running SO fast in a fog
and for not sounding the signals OF danger
These offenses are rank and repeated by
steamship captains to the great peril of
human life and it is only a wonder that
more serious results have not come of it.
An example should be made in some such
censpicuoua case as this.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-11
Over the Garden Wall.

MI. and Mrs. Knight and their comedy
company returned from San Francisco and
Southern California playing "Over the Gar
den Wall' to a large house at the Grand
Opera House last evening. Since their last
appearance here some changes have been
made in the cast which is now better than
ever. Mr.. knight seems to grow more
funny zach time in his character of
Snitx. while Mrs. Knight sings
and dances with charming effect. Mr.. John
B. Dyllyn, one Of the new members, has .
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-11

From the enquiries hat are coming in
from ell sections Of the country to Secre-
tary Mantle, the August meeting OF the
West Side Racing Association will be a
grand success. Horses will probably be
entered from San Francisco, st. Paul. Salt
Lake, and other cities. Oregon will also be
represented. The Association lie taking
active measures to accommodate all corners
and make the races a notable turf event.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-11
Filed for Record Yesterday.

Albertina Ginsberg to Albert Ginsberp
the north y of a tract of laid described il
a deed from Wesley Emery ct al. to Albert
Gensberg; $S5.
Jas. Thompson ct al. to Jas. r. Milne
lot 10 block g., Butte, surface deed; $500.
Edward Mueller ct al. to Chas. 8. War
rem, x interest in the Cossack quatz lode il
t. 3, n T. W., Summit Valley district
$4,000.
J. Z. C. Thornton ct al. to James Thorn.
son, of Fort Meade, Florida, lots Z, 8, {
and 10. block 6, Butte. surface deed; $3.50,